Dan Glover writes from Canada: “You argue about giving up stretchy jeans as we dont want any of that spandex getting into the bills. I dont know. It seems to me that now-a-days it would be beneficial to make our dollars go further. And what better season than Christmas for trying to stretch every dollar.
“In Canada, our new bills are no longer paper or cloth products but plastic, with see through panels. Ive heard rumors (though I cant confirm) that if you leave a bill in your jeans and it goes through the washer, it will come out just fine they cant soak up any liquid but if they go through the dryer, they shrink and jumble up. This will make money laundering so much harder with Canadian currency now.
“And its not like we have the option of just writing cheques because, at least for many people, their cheques have quite a high rubber content and often when you go to deposit them, they just bounce. Perhaps that is the solution . . . . Perhaps if one just puts a load of American and Canadian bills in the dryer together along with a cheque that has bounced, the cheque will act as a dryer sheet and mitigate the elastic currency woes both nations seem to be having.”
We’ve solved the currency problem. Next?
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